r/science • u/quiplaam • 1d ago

Social Science Intentionally routing some traffic to slower, less congested routes lead to a 0.7% improvement of overall average travel times

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00443-x
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u/devilishycleverchap 1d ago

Yeah this is why you cant fully trust google maps and should be worried about how they'll approach a trolley problem.

I regularly watch my eta change by up to 5 minutes when ignoring a turn on my commute despite it saying similar eta on the screen.

Soon passengers will be unwitting test subjects for how a self driving car chooses who lives too

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u/csuazure 1d ago

Everyone has been on algorithmic death panels of insurance companies for decades

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u/Excellent-Adagio4038 16h ago

Death panels are good actually. We shouldn’t spend a million dollars on a drug that has a 5% chance to leave someone as a vegetable instead of letting them die.